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Benedict XVI: thinker, preacher, saint? Scholars and former students discuss legacy

January 1, 2023 Catholic News Agency 10

Benedict XVI holds his final general audience, Feb. 27, 2013. / Mazur/www.thepapalvisit.org.uk (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

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The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI prompted his former students and other Catholi… […]

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A Deeper Context: Overlooked book provides insight into Vatican II debates

September 2, 2020 Conor Dugan 68

In the first year of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI famously recalled the Second Vatican Council, which had ended 40 years previously. Benedict, with the steely-eyed realism that has marked his whole life, posed hard […]

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Faith, reason, and two decades of studying Fides et Ratio

September 10, 2018 Douglas Kries 3

Those devoted to the debate about faith and reason need to confront a fundamental problem: the tremendous loss of confidence in the ability of reason […]

The Dispatch

Spadaro, Figueroa, and questions of competence

August 2, 2017 George Weigel 30

It’s a safe bet that 99.95% of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have never heard of La Civiltà Cattolica [Catholic Civilization], a journal founded in 1850 by the Jesuits of Rome to combat the evils […]

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